cub3 (kub)

[To be considered with the dim. cubby3, q. v.; prob. of LG. origin; cf. LG. kubje (dim., > E. cubby?), to - kubje, also kübbung, a shed or lean-to for cattle; bekubbelt, narrow, contracted, crowded for room; cf. also D. kub, kubbe, a fish-trap, which suggests a connection with cubby2, a creel. In the sense of 'cupboard, cub may be an abbr. of the old form cubbord.] 1. A stall for cattle; a crib. I would rather have such in cub or kennel than in my closet or at my table. 2. A chest; a bin. Landor . IMG:content-1764.png:[blocks in formation] The great leidger-book of the statutes is to be placed in archivis among the university charters, and not in any cub of the library. Abp . Laud, Chancellorship at Oxford, p. 132. [Local or obsolete in all uses.] cub3+ (kub), v. t. [See cub3, n.] To shut up or confine. To be cubbed up on a sudden, how shall he be perplexed, what shall become of him? Burton, Anat. of Art thou of Bethlem's noble college free, Stark staring mad, that thou wouldst tempt the sea, Cubb'd in a cabin? Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, v. Cuba bast. See bast1, 1.